Here is the continuation and end of the Prologue to the Apophthegmata Patrum, alphabetical series, which I was too tired to finish last night. You’ll note that the fifth century editor who wrote the prologue mentions that he has separated out the anonymous sayings and compiled them separately after the alphabetical collection. This is veryContinue reading “Sayings of the Fathers, Prologue (cont’d)”
Daily Archives: February 23, 2007
Berkeley WECSOR, anyone?
In a few weeks, on March 25 and 26 to be exact, the Western Commission for the Study of Religion, affectionately known as WECSOR, will be held here in Berkeley, mere blocks from my home at the Bade Museum of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. That school has a particularly nice lawn thatContinue reading “Berkeley WECSOR, anyone?”
The Apophthegmata Patrum
For Lent this year, I am translating the Apophthegmata Patrum, the Sayings of the Fathers, the alphabetical series, best known these days through Sr Benedicta Ward’s excellent translation in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers. The text I’m using is the same base text that she used, that of Migne PG 65:71-440, as found inContinue reading “The Apophthegmata Patrum”